WTForms bringing in data from form in unicode formating

Question

For some reason WTForms is getting information in unicode format instead of the normal format. The code used to work than when it got restarted it broke.

The error in flask view:

TypeError

TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable

The error in console:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1836, in call

return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app

response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e))

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception

reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app

response = self.full_dispatch_request()

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request

rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception

reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request

rv = self.dispatch_request()

File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request

return self.view_functionsrule.endpoint

File "/Users/marcellobachechi/Desktop/RMP/server.py", line 72, in hello

user = form.song.data()

TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable

The code is:

class PickASong(Form):
    song = TextField(u'Song title', validators=[DataRequired()])

form = PickASong(csrf_enabled=False)

if form.validate_on_submit():
 user = form.song.data()

The HTML:

<form action="" method="post" name="login">

      <p>
          {{ form.song(size=20) }}

      <input type="submit" value="Search!"></p></p>

     {{ form.song(size=20) }}
</form>

Steve Barnes Steve Barnes · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-30T05:42:06

Just delete the brackets after form.song.data as it is already a Unicode string.

WTForms bringing in data from form in unicode formating

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